This year is the first time in my life that the Winter Olympics and the Academy Awards have fallen in the same month. Because I grew up with a great love for watching both figure skating and movies, it seems like 2014 should be a banner year for me to tune into the events that…
A sad day in comics is coming. Sad days are in my opinion, the one thing that the comic book business knows better that any other entertainment business. Yes, other media has its share of sad days but those are usually the death of someone. I wish (and so do you) I had a dollar…
Heart and soul. It’s what Josh Baskin and MacMillan play during the memorable dance scene in 1988’s Big but it’s also what the film is infused with, making it stand up to the test of time. Yeah, its look is dated thanks to bad hair and big shoulder pads, but the story of a 13…
The Cookie Monster finished duct taping Kermit to the chair, stepped back, removed a cattle prod from somewhere within his fur and growled, “Where cookie?” “I don’t know where your cookie is,” Kermit whined. The Monster brandished the cattle prod. “Last chance. Where cookie?” Then he jammed the cattle prod into the part of Kermit’s…
Alfred Hitchcock is today best known for his work in the 1950s and 1960s, thanks to Universal and Warner Bros. steady stream of restored re-releases on Blu-ray but recently, 20th Century Home Entertainment reminded us that the master director wasn’t exactly idle in the years before. A trio of his 1940s works – Notorious, Spellbound,…
We admit it, we’re hooked by this trailer. Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars has a look and feel that separates it from our previous visual incarnations while remaining faithful to the source material. With this and The Hunger Games in March, suddenly that month is starting to feel like summer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlvYKl1fjBI
There is no question that Neil Patrick Harris owes the reboot of his career to the first HAROLD & KUMAR movie. Now he returns for a third time and tells us about the role plus his directing gigs, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER and the rumors that he’s replacing REGIS. Then we start our look…
In the mid-1920’s, an up-and-coming young animator had a brief encounter with an up-and-coming child star. Although they only met in passing, Mickey Rooney remembers Walt Disney as “a very charming man.” More than 50 years later, in 1981, Rooney would find himself starring in one of Walt Disney Studio’s most beloved animated films, The…
One of the joys of the Warner Archive program is that movies and television shows for small groups of fans can be released. The restoration costs seem to have reached a reasonable scale and these direct-to-order projects don’t really require the bells and whistles higher profile releases deserve. As a result, we can revel in…
Disney has done such a spectacular job with their upgraded high definition releases of their classics through the years so each announcement is most welcome. Personally, I question the value of a 3-D home video release but it’s nice they have the option for those interested. Here’s the official release: BURBANK, Calif. (May 26, 2011)…
Here’s the release with all the current information, reminding us of how much we’re looking to seeing how this wraps up: BURBANK, CA, May 19, 2011 – Principal photography has begun on Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ The Dark Knight Rises, the epic conclusion to filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s [[[Batman]]] trilogy. Leading an all-star international cast,…
The 82nd Annual Academy Award nominations have been announced with Avatar and The Hurt Locker , racking up nine nominations each. Quentin Tarantino’s love it or hate it Inglorious Basterds received eight nominations while Precious and Up in the Air got six; Up has five; District 9, Nine and Star Trek with four; and An…
